JUnit Reports — Test Method Descriptions

Question

I am trying to see if there is a way to include \"descriptive text\" in my junit reports by way of javadocs. JUnit 4 doesnt seem to support the \'description\' attribute for the

Answer 1

There's also rather recent solution called Allure. That's a Java-based test execution report mainly based on adding supplementary annotations to the code. Existing annotations include:

• custom description: @Description("A cool test")
• grouping by features or stories: @Features({"feature1", "feature2"}), @Stories({"story1", "story2" })
• marking methods executed inside test case as steps: @Step (works even for private methods)
• attachments: @Attachment(name = "Page screenshot", type = "image/png")

See their wiki and example project for more details.